But….No one could have foreseen this! My Government told me so!

Former intelligence officials confirmed to the Associated Press Monday a Le Monde newspaper report that France’s foreign intelligent service had heard about an al Qaeda plot which was “likely to involve a US airplane.” The French paper had also reported that France informed the Central Intelligence Agency prior to the attacks on September 11, 2001.

Of course this means that basically every other intelligence agency in the world sensed something was coming, EXCEPT the CIA. But yeah, George Tenet deserved a medal

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This Just In…Richard Perle is a Gigantic Douchebag

I’m going to skip right past the whole, “avoiding disaster” comment, cuz that’s just too easy. Now, as far as equateing Iraq to buying insurance. Perhaps it’s different in the Perle household, but I don’t buy car insurance so that I can immediately ram it into other cars, nor would I buy home owner’s insurance in order to immediately burn the house down. That would actually be illegal

Hmmmmm…. maybe Mr. Perle was actually issuing a vague mea culpa, admitting that the Bush Administration committed an international crime? Nah that can’t be it, they won’t admit they caused this disaster.

On a separate note, why do legitimate news organizations allow these A-holes to come on and make these claims without any sort of corroborating evidence? If Perle is going to continue to claim there was a connection between Saddam and Osama, make him freaking prove it!

From Raw Story:

Richard Perle, the American Enterprise Institute fellow who helped build the case for the Iraq War prior to the US invasion in 2003, appeared on CNN’s ‘Late Edition’ with Wolf Blizter last night and continued to cling to the existence of links between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al Qaida terrorists.

While admitting Hussein’s government had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, Perle continued to point to a “direct connection” between the two.

“There is evidence of a connect between al Qaida and Saddam Hussein’s intelligence,” he insisted.

Perle also dismissed concerns that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq after the war as evidence that the war was unjustified. Instead, he described the decision to invade as reasonable because it was a “management of risk.”

“It’s a little bit like saying it was wrong to buy insurance last year because your house didn’t burn down or you didn’t have an automobile accident. You buy insurance to hedge against disastrous things happening,” he claimed.